Tag: devops

Cockpit is the modern systemd-native Linux admin panel. Webmin is the veteran that configures everything. Here's which one should be on your servers — and which shouldn't.

You're pulling container images from strangers on the internet. Trivy scans them for CVEs. Cosign proves they haven't been tampered with. Use both.

Prometheus scrapes metrics. Grafana makes them pretty. Alertmanager wakes you up at 2 AM. Here's how to wire all three together into a monitoring stack that actually works.

GitLab CE does everything and wants all your RAM. Gitea and Forgejo run on a Raspberry Pi. Here's which self-hosted git platform actually fits your setup.

Cache mounts, secret mounts, parallel stages — BuildKit turns your Dockerfile from a slow linear disaster into something that actually respects your time.

Docker networking confuses everyone at first. Here's the practical breakdown of bridge, host, overlay, and macvlan — with real Compose examples.

Learn how lazydocker and dive make Docker manageable from your terminal. TUI dashboards, image layer analysis, CI integration, and optimization tips.

Cloudflare rebuilt WordPress from scratch in TypeScript using AI agents. Sandboxed plugins, Astro themes, self-hostable. It's called EmDash and it's actually interesting.

logrotate keeps your /var/log from eating the disk — configure rotation schedules, compression, and retention for any service log.

Service restart not showing logs? systemd hides stdout. Learn journalctl, systemctl status, and debugging workflows for silent systemd failures.

JSON mode forces models to output valid JSON. When it's a lifesaver vs. when it's overkill and makes the model worse.

You committed .env.production once. Your database credentials are in git forever. Here's how to use dotenv without shooting yourself.